Chris Lu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chris Lu
Occupation	Lawyer
Date Of Birth	Jun 12, 1966(1966-06-12)
Age	58
Birthplace	New Jersey
Country	United States
Horoscope	Gemini

Chris Lu Biography

Chris Lu is one of the most popular and richest Lawyer who was born on June 12, 1966 in New Jersey, United States. Chris Lu was born on June 12, 1966, in New Jersey. His family in 1974 relocated into the Fallsmead neighborhood in Rockville, Maryland, where Chris completed his studies at Thomas S. Wootton High School in the year 1984. Lu is the child of Eileen Lu and Chien Yang Lu who both are from China and resided on the island of Taiwan up to the 50s, at which point they immigrated towards America. United States to attend college. Lu’s grandfather, Wang Re-Yuan was Secretary of Justice of Taiwan from 1970 until 1976, and got elected into the 1st Legislative Yuan in 1948 to represent Tianjin. Lu stated that he was greatly in the footsteps of the father of his, who was an electrical engineer, but was a lover of reading and studying history. The two read biographies of political figures and catch the news at night together.

At the end of 1997, Lu quit Sidley Austin and began his first position in the political world as the deputy chief counsel for the Representative Henry Waxman and the Democratic staff of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee of the House of Representatives. Phil Schiliro, Waxman’s chief of staff, played an important role in the decision to employ Lu and the two worked together later during the Obama administration. Lu has since said that he counts Schiliro as well as Pete Rouse, another future White House staffer, among his most influential teachers. During his time with the Government Reform Committee, Lu led a number of high-profile investigation, including an investigation into campaign fundraising during presidential election in 1996 as well as the fall of Enron and the substandard care provided in conditions in nursing homes. Lu was also a special advisor to communications for senator John Kerry during the 2004 presidential election. One of his major responsibilities was to coordinate the efforts for families of September 11 victims that were a part of supporters of the Kerry campaign.

After Barack Obama was elected as U.S. Senator of Illinois, Lu joined Obama’s office in early 2005 as legislative director. Lu developed a strong admiration for Obama, of whom he said, “With his quick and incisive mind, Obama is the most intelligent person that I have ever met (in the political arena).” As legislative director, Lu led a 15-person group and was responsible for overseeing the drafting of all legislation and advising Obama on votes and policy decisions. When weighing difficult votes, Obama had Lu and his other staff members assemble together and argue about the issue in front of him. David Mendell, a Chicago Tribune reporter and Obama biographer, said Lu was among the “moderate voices in this atmosphere of smart young staffers.” Lu advised Obama to vote in favor of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 because he felt it would have been politically wiser to support it, but Obama ultimately voted against it.

Lu eventually became acting chief of staff in Obama’s Senate office. When Obama announced his candidacy for president in February 2007, Lu did not move over to the campaign, but remained to continue running Obama’s operations in the Senate; Lu said of Obama at that time, “Even while he was running for president, he had a day job [in the Senate].”

After graduating from cumlaude at Harvard in the year 1991, Lu started his career as a law clerk for judge Robert Cowen in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He joined the court in 1992 and started working as a litigation attorney in Sidley Austin. Washington, D.C. office of Sidley Austin, a large law firm based in Chicago. Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, also worked at Sidley Austin, in the firm’s Chicago office.

Chris Lu Net Worth

Chris Lu is one of the richest Lawyer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Lu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Christopher P. Lu (simplified Chinese: Lu Pei Zhu Traditional Chinese: Lu Pei Zhu Pinyin: Lu Peining ; born on June 12, 1966) is a former United States Deputy Secretary of Labor. He was also Secretary to the President and White House Cabinet Secretary for United States President Barack Obama from 2009 until 2013 as well as the co-chairman for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Lu was a graduate of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and also from Harvard Law School, where the classmate was Obama’s.

Lu was a student at Lu was a student at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in the year he served as the editor in chief for The Daily Princetonian. Lu’s desire for the political arena grew in Princeton and was heightened by his time at the Capitol Hill office of Senator Charles Mathias. He earned his magna cum loupe in 1988, having written an extensive senior thesis of 161 pages that was titled “Press Coverage of Presidential Primaries, 1972-1984.” After finishing his studies at Princeton, Lu attended Harvard Law School and was one of Obama’s classmates from the year 1988 until 1991.

After serving briefly as an advisor on Senator John Kerry’s 2004 presidential campaign, Lu began working for Barack Obama in 2005 in his U.S. Senate office, where Lu served as legislative director and acting chief of staff. Following Obama’s successful 2008 campaign for presidency, Lu was appointed executive director of the Obama-Biden Transition Project. When Obama appointed Lu as Cabinet Secretary, The New York Times described him as “one of the highest- ranking Asian Americans in the Obama administration”.

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